Post by QuidditchChic on May 1, 2004 19:00:57 GMT -5
The Daily Prophet
[shadow=green,left,300]Zonko ill; shop closes due to attack
30 April 2004 - Zimhogen Zonko, owner of Zonko's Joke Shop in Hogsmeade, was admitted to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries after a Monday attack on his shop.
Zonko is suffering from Severe Odiferitis, defined as extreme exposure to foul odors, an illness usually caused by Dungbombs. However, there was no trace of Dungbomb except those untouched in Zonko's supplies.
"Every Saturday, the delivery boys from the factory come down to the basement with a new shipment, to replenish the supplies. Weekends are our best days," Zonko said from his bed in the hospital. "On Monday, we noticed that we had one extra crate, so we opened it, expecting perhaps some complimentary Fizzing Whizbees."
"Upon opening the crate - marked with a Zonko's seal; we didn't expect anything, really - we found several thin glass spheres filled with a sloshing, colorless liquid." Zonko continued to say that the crate was left alone, but when one of his assistants stumbled, the entire crate - "very light, really" - was upturned, and the spheres broke.
"The sticky goo in it dried real fastly," said Martin Pinklenut, the said shop assistant, who was also admitted to St. Mungo's. "Sooner'n you can say 'butterbeer', the shop's blooming flooded with some blue stinking gas. Next thing I knew, I was here."
Zonko, who was forced to temporarily close his shop to air it out, treats this as the latest in the War of the Joke Shops between Zonko's and Weasley's Wizard Wheezes, but as yet, there is no proof.
Also unfounded are the rumors that a Hogwarts Our Way student placed the crate there by way of a secret passage between Zonko's and the school grounds.
Zonko's patrons, meanwhile, have had no choice but to go to Diagon Alley for their "pranksters' needs".
-*Kally*[/shadow]
[glow=pink,2,300]*SHOP OF THE WEEK!*
Magical Menagerie!
Owner: Meg
What it sells: Animals!
There are all the magical and non-magical animals you can imagine! They also sell posters and figurines, along with animal food!
It's a great place![/glow]
[glow=pink,2,300]Sports[/glow]
HELLO SPORTS FANS!! and welcome to an exciting new Quidditch year at hogwarts!! Although the official Quidditch calendar has not yet been formed, there is still much excitment on the field! Try-outs have been going on for the past week or so and the anticipation is growing for who will be making the team. But time isn't up yet! People can still sign-up to help their house out! As for the Quidditch champion, all the players on all the teams are new for the first time in Hogwarts HISTORY! So we do not yet know who will have a good season and bring their team to victory or which teams will crash and burn due to mistakes. I'll be here the entire season to give you a play-by-play game-by-game report! Keep checking back here for YOUR teams victory and possibly your winning goal!! I'm crossing my fingers and hoping all of you will make the quidditch team!! GOOD LUCK GUYS!! Signing off your Hogwarts Quidditch reporter- - -LOUISE!!!!
[glow=maroon,2,300]*Trivia*
1) How many chasers are on a Qudditch team?
a) 5 b) 3 c) 2
2) What does the Mirror of Erised reflect?
a) Whatever you want to see
b) the deepest desires of our hearts
c) The past
3) Who wrote "A History of Magic"?
a) Bathilda Bagshot
b) Miranda Goshawk
c) Phillida
Sponk
4) What ingredients make up a simple potion to cure
boils? a) Batwings and sorrel b) Crushed nettle and
snake fangs c) Mandrake and toadstools
5) What seperates the restricted section of the library
from the rest of the library? a) a locked door b) a rope
c) a invisible alarm
*Please PM QuidditchChic with the answers*
The winner of last weeks contest is.....tomfeltonluver! She wins a 75g gift certificate to Quality Quidditch Supplies!!
--> Meg wins a Slytherin Fan button! She also got all the questions right, but tomfeltonluver turned it in first.
[/glow]
[glow=pink,2,300]*New Stuff*
Looks and Books - a new shop in Diagon Alley run by zuriuz10![/glow]
[glow=red,2,300] 
*Ads*
[/glow]
[glow=red,2,300]Weasley Owl Empourium!
NEED A FAST, SAFE, RELIABLE OWL?!........
GO TO THE BRAND NEW WEASLEY OWL EMPORIUM!ALREADY HAVE AN OWL?? .......
SPOIL IT WITH OUR NEW SELECTION OF TREATS AND TOYS, EVERY OWL DESERVES![/glow]
Gently Used Robes
[glow=hotpink,2,300]Hey! Come shop at Gently Used Robes! We have a wide variety of used robes at the cheapest prices! We also have many cheap priced accesories! Please come to Gently Used Robes![/glow]
Almarts Discount[glow=red,2,300]
From Clothes to Games, We've got all the Brand names!" C'mon Down to Almart Discount for a nice visit, we've got a progressing Gormet Resteraunt, and even a cafe! We're a real cheap store, we sell everythign you can thinks of! Even music! Candy and jokes are also our specialty, were kind of a dollar store, so we wont dig a big trench in your robe pockets, enjoy a nice meal, or a sweet sip of coffe, even refill your ink vile, well, hope ya peek! thanx!
[/glow]
Caribbean Ice Cream Parlor
[glow=LimeGreen,2,300]Come cool off here, beat the heat with ice cream...while your at it join in on the ice cream war! ;D[/glow]
Robes for All Occassions
[glow=pink,2,300]Shop at Robes for All Occassions to fulfill all your clothing needs!
Come check out our new membership plan, cool rewards, invites to parties, and so much more. Get your "Black Card" today![/glow]
Madame Serena's Assortment of Things
[glow=brown,2,300]Want to get an assortment of cool things at low prices? Come to Madame Serena's Assorment of Things in Diagon Alley! [/glow]
Prankster's Haven
[glow=teal,2,300]Come here to buy all your joke stuff! Well what do you expect, it's Prankster's Haven! [/glow]
Quality Quidditch Supplies
[glow=orange,2,300]Come to Quality Quidditch Supplies for Brooms, Quidditch Robes, Hogwarts House team buttons....just about anything Quidditch related! [/glow]
If anyone else would like their shop advertised, please PM QuidditchChic with your advertisement! Be sure to include your shop's name! I'll keep your shop in the ads until you ask me to take it out for some reason. If you would like to change your ad, just PM me!
*compiled by QuidditchChic*
[shadow=green,left,300]Zonko ill; shop closes due to attack
30 April 2004 - Zimhogen Zonko, owner of Zonko's Joke Shop in Hogsmeade, was admitted to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries after a Monday attack on his shop.
Zonko is suffering from Severe Odiferitis, defined as extreme exposure to foul odors, an illness usually caused by Dungbombs. However, there was no trace of Dungbomb except those untouched in Zonko's supplies.
"Every Saturday, the delivery boys from the factory come down to the basement with a new shipment, to replenish the supplies. Weekends are our best days," Zonko said from his bed in the hospital. "On Monday, we noticed that we had one extra crate, so we opened it, expecting perhaps some complimentary Fizzing Whizbees."
"Upon opening the crate - marked with a Zonko's seal; we didn't expect anything, really - we found several thin glass spheres filled with a sloshing, colorless liquid." Zonko continued to say that the crate was left alone, but when one of his assistants stumbled, the entire crate - "very light, really" - was upturned, and the spheres broke.
"The sticky goo in it dried real fastly," said Martin Pinklenut, the said shop assistant, who was also admitted to St. Mungo's. "Sooner'n you can say 'butterbeer', the shop's blooming flooded with some blue stinking gas. Next thing I knew, I was here."
Zonko, who was forced to temporarily close his shop to air it out, treats this as the latest in the War of the Joke Shops between Zonko's and Weasley's Wizard Wheezes, but as yet, there is no proof.
Also unfounded are the rumors that a Hogwarts Our Way student placed the crate there by way of a secret passage between Zonko's and the school grounds.
Zonko's patrons, meanwhile, have had no choice but to go to Diagon Alley for their "pranksters' needs".
-*Kally*[/shadow]
[glow=pink,2,300]*SHOP OF THE WEEK!*
Magical Menagerie!
Owner: Meg
What it sells: Animals!
There are all the magical and non-magical animals you can imagine! They also sell posters and figurines, along with animal food!
It's a great place![/glow][glow=pink,2,300]Sports[/glow]
HELLO SPORTS FANS!! and welcome to an exciting new Quidditch year at hogwarts!! Although the official Quidditch calendar has not yet been formed, there is still much excitment on the field! Try-outs have been going on for the past week or so and the anticipation is growing for who will be making the team. But time isn't up yet! People can still sign-up to help their house out! As for the Quidditch champion, all the players on all the teams are new for the first time in Hogwarts HISTORY! So we do not yet know who will have a good season and bring their team to victory or which teams will crash and burn due to mistakes. I'll be here the entire season to give you a play-by-play game-by-game report! Keep checking back here for YOUR teams victory and possibly your winning goal!! I'm crossing my fingers and hoping all of you will make the quidditch team!! GOOD LUCK GUYS!! Signing off your Hogwarts Quidditch reporter- - -LOUISE!!!!
[glow=maroon,2,300]*Trivia*
1) How many chasers are on a Qudditch team?
a) 5 b) 3 c) 2
2) What does the Mirror of Erised reflect?
a) Whatever you want to see
b) the deepest desires of our hearts
c) The past
3) Who wrote "A History of Magic"?
a) Bathilda Bagshot
b) Miranda Goshawk
c) Phillida
Sponk
4) What ingredients make up a simple potion to cure
boils? a) Batwings and sorrel b) Crushed nettle and
snake fangs c) Mandrake and toadstools
5) What seperates the restricted section of the library
from the rest of the library? a) a locked door b) a rope
c) a invisible alarm
*Please PM QuidditchChic with the answers*
The winner of last weeks contest is.....tomfeltonluver! She wins a 75g gift certificate to Quality Quidditch Supplies!!
--> Meg wins a Slytherin Fan button! She also got all the questions right, but tomfeltonluver turned it in first.
[/glow]
[glow=pink,2,300]*New Stuff*
Looks and Books - a new shop in Diagon Alley run by zuriuz10![/glow]
[glow=red,2,300]
*Ads* [glow=red,2,300]Weasley Owl Empourium!
NEED A FAST, SAFE, RELIABLE OWL?!........
GO TO THE BRAND NEW WEASLEY OWL EMPORIUM!ALREADY HAVE AN OWL?? .......
SPOIL IT WITH OUR NEW SELECTION OF TREATS AND TOYS, EVERY OWL DESERVES![/glow]
Gently Used Robes
[glow=hotpink,2,300]Hey! Come shop at Gently Used Robes! We have a wide variety of used robes at the cheapest prices! We also have many cheap priced accesories! Please come to Gently Used Robes!
[/glow]Almarts Discount[glow=red,2,300]
From Clothes to Games, We've got all the Brand names!" C'mon Down to Almart Discount for a nice visit, we've got a progressing Gormet Resteraunt, and even a cafe! We're a real cheap store, we sell everythign you can thinks of! Even music! Candy and jokes are also our specialty, were kind of a dollar store, so we wont dig a big trench in your robe pockets, enjoy a nice meal, or a sweet sip of coffe, even refill your ink vile, well, hope ya peek! thanx!
[/glow]Caribbean Ice Cream Parlor
[glow=LimeGreen,2,300]Come cool off here, beat the heat with ice cream...while your at it join in on the ice cream war! ;D[/glow]
Robes for All Occassions
[glow=pink,2,300]Shop at Robes for All Occassions to fulfill all your clothing needs!
Come check out our new membership plan, cool rewards, invites to parties, and so much more. Get your "Black Card" today!
[/glow]Madame Serena's Assortment of Things
[glow=brown,2,300]Want to get an assortment of cool things at low prices? Come to Madame Serena's Assorment of Things in Diagon Alley! [/glow]
Prankster's Haven
[glow=teal,2,300]Come here to buy all your joke stuff! Well what do you expect, it's Prankster's Haven! [/glow]
Quality Quidditch Supplies
[glow=orange,2,300]Come to Quality Quidditch Supplies for Brooms, Quidditch Robes, Hogwarts House team buttons....just about anything Quidditch related! [/glow]
If anyone else would like their shop advertised, please PM QuidditchChic with your advertisement! Be sure to include your shop's name! I'll keep your shop in the ads until you ask me to take it out for some reason. If you would like to change your ad, just PM me!
*compiled by QuidditchChic*